Yahoo! Music, May 17, 2001 5:00 pm PDT
(5/17/01, 5 p.m. ET) -- Sade has handpicked neo-soul singer India.Arie to be the opening act on her 30-city North American tour. Arie's debut album, Acoustic Soul, was recently certified gold for sales of 500,000 copies and it is currently Number 36 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The lead single from the set, "Video," is currently Number 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and the video has been in heavy rotation for two months.
The Sade/India.Arie tour is scheduled to kick off July 14 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and it will end on September 1 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Arie will open all of the dates except July 22 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, where West African singer Youssou N'Dour will handle the opening-act duties.
Sade/India.Arie tour schedule (subject to change):
July 14 - Vancouver, BC - General Motors Palace
July 15 - Seattle, WA - Key Arena
July 17 - Concord, CA - Chronicle Pavilion
July 18 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
July 20 - Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 22,23 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
July 26 - Chula Vista, CA - Coors Amphitheatre
July 27 - Las Vegas, NV - MGM Grand Garden
July 29 - Schertz, TX - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 30 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
August 1 - Spring, TX - C.W. Mitchell Pavilion
August 4 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
August 5,7 - Rosemont, IL - Allstate Arena
August 10 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
August 11 - Camden, NJ - Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
August 13,15 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
August 16 - Wantagh, NY - Jones Beach Amphitheatre
August 18 - Cleveland, OH - Cleveland State University
August 19 - Auburn Hills, MI - Palace Of Auburn Hills
August 21 - Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Arena
August 22 - Boston, MA – FleetCenter
August 24 - Bristow, VA - Nissan Pavilion
August 25 - Raleigh, NC - Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek
August 27 - Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena
August 29 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - National Car Rental Center
August 30 - Tampa, FL - Ice Palace
September 1 - New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Arena
-- Yves Salomon, New York
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